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INTRODUCTION: The professional success of the anesthesiologist and intensive care physicians, saving the life and recovery of the patient directly depends not only and not so much on the knowledge, professional skills and abilities of the doctor, but on personal decision-making abilities, immediately act and ensure effective communication between participants in the treatment process in critical situation. The absence of these personal qualities can neutralize all other advantages of a specialist. OBJECTIVE: To study the opinion of anesthesiologist and intensive care physicians about the personality properties that are necessary for the implementation of labor activity in anesthesiology and intensive care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An anonymous on-line survey of anesthesiologists and intensive care physicians (including residents) based on the google form was conducted, in which 140 people took part. Among the respondents were 44.3 % of men and 55.7 % of women. 80 % of respondents were less than 35 years old, more than 70 % of respondents had less than five years of work experience. The Google form consisted of twelve blocks, which included ninety-seven personality characteristics: attenuation, mnemic, motor, sensory, pictorial, thought, emotional, strong-willed, speech, communicative, performance and observation. RESULTS: Personality characteristics that are absolutely necessary for an anesthesiologist intensive care physicians include the following: the ability to maintain stable attention for a long time, despite fatigue and extraneous stimuli; the ability to see several possible paths and mentally choose the most effective; the ability to predict the outcome of events taking into account their probability the ability to find new and unusual solutions; the ability to selectively reproduce the currently desired material. CONCLUSIONS: The ideal anesthesiologist and intensive care physicians should have a minimum level of neurotization, a high degree of extraversion and conscientiousness.